Results 11 - 20 of 57

• Identifying, Assessing, and Analyzing Data to Improve Miners' Health
  11/27/2023 - Research projects
  A project to maintain the use of hazard and health data to guide and improve workplace policies and procedures, thereby informing priorities for research and interventions to improve miners’ health and well-being.
• Mine Health and Safety Big Data Analysis and Text Mining by Machine Learning Algorithms
  2/27/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Michigan Tech to use Big Data Analysis to aid in mine safety and health.
• Computational Research
  11/1/2021 - Research projects
  A project to contribute to improving the health and safety of miners by providing essential information technology development activities for the NIOSH Mining Program.
• ObsPlus: A Pandas-centric ObsPy Expansion Pack
  4/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A description of ObsPlus and how it can improve seismological data processing and management.
• Health Risk Factors Among Miners, Oil and Gas Extraction Workers, Other Manual Labor Workers, and Non-manual Labor Workers, BRFSS 2013-2017, 32 States
  8/1/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This study compares the prevalence of health risk factors of miners, oil and gas extraction workers, other manual labor, and non-manual labor workers.
• Clinical and Field Data Analysis of Miner Health
  4/13/2020 - Research projects
  A project to compile, manage, and analyze available secondary data sources related to miner health and exposure across mining, but with an initial emphasis on metal and industrial mineral sectors.
• Prevention of Manual Materials Handling Injuries in Mining
  2/10/2019 - Research projects
  A project to reduce manual materials handling injuries in mining through increased usage of materials handling solutions and safe practices.
• Surveillance & Statistics
  10/25/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop and strengthen the use of surveillance data to identify priorities, trends, and emerging issues within the mining industry.
• Calibration and Verification of Longwall Stress Models
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to address the paucity of guidance in available literature for assessing the design an underground longwall coal mine for safe ground response to mining with numerical stress analysis tools.
• Strengthening an Existing 20-PSI Mine Seal with PPG's Polyurea Coated Retrofit
  7/22/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop a spray-applied polyurea coating system that would upgrade existing 20-psi approved mine seals to withstand blast pressures greater than 60 psi.